Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-04-27
SCORES OF PEOPLE KILLED
THE DEADLY CYCLONE VISITS KAN
SAS AND MISSOURI.
The Whirling Monster Also Makes q
Dash Into the State of Ar
kansas.


ing Left Standing to Mark the Site OF a
Once Thriving Place List of the
Killed and Wounded.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 25.-Early
Thursday evening a cyclone struck Linn
county, Kan, where it killed seventeen per.
sons and did great damage to property, and
then crossed into Missouri. It again swept
the earth in Vernon county, where not less
than twenty persons were killed and large
tract of country was laid waste. Reports
thus far are meagre, and later information
may increase the list Of victims
In Linn county, Kansas the following per-
sons were among the killed: Constable Jake
S ephsn, Will McKale Mrs. Sarah Crone,
P. Flynn and three children, Jacob Brobach
and wife, Mrs. Richard Hardness, Mrs.
Douglass Walter and infant, an infant of
S. P. Dennlng, child of joe Duncan, q
| 6-year-old child Of Will McKale. The seri-
ously injured are: Jim Waldridge, arm
broken and back hurt; George White, arm
broken; j. C. Kinsey, severe contusions;
William Campbell, struck by timbers, and it
| it is feared will die.
In Vernon county, Missouri, the following
were among the killed. John Miller, wife,
and two children; May Cullenbine; Mrs. E.
Shrout and her daughter Mary; May Slower
aged Is; j. C. Hawkins, a farmer; John
Hats; his wife will die from her injuries.
The cyclone struck Prescott, in Linn
county, Kansas, at about $3.50. There were
seventeen persons killed at different points
throughout the county. and an incalculabie
amount OF damage was done to all kinds of
property. Prescott was literally wiped out
Of existence, not single building being left
standing to mark the site OF a once prosper
Gus and thriving place. Reports are coming
in from all over the country of damage by
the terrible storm.
On the farm Of Richard Hardness he, with
his wife, four children and Miss Minick, of
Oakland, Ills, visiting the family, were in
the house. The building was taken up bod
lily, carried 200 yards, and dropped in an
orchard, crashing upon a large apple tree.
All the occupants were hurt very seriously
and Mrs. Hardness was killed. The force Of
the storm was appalling and wonderful
freaks were performed by the wind.
In was o'clock when the storm reached
farm-houses were destroyed, and about
twenty persons were killed. The clouds
were plainly visible from Nevada, although
the destruction was eight miles north Of
there.
Between and o'clock the people in Metz
township observed heavy clouds OF dark
grayish color travelling up the Marmaton
RIVER from the Kansas line. Not the slight
est danger was apprehended and very little
a tention was paid to them. 1t was oticed
tlat the hue of the cloud was continually
langing, while an elongated funnel-shaped
attacnmen6 of vivid dun color swept down
ward toward the ground, approaching closer
a.ld closer as the advance continued Ten
minutes later the column reached the west
srn line OF Metz township, which is about
1O0 feet higher. than the river bottom land,
and the funnel-shaped cloud swept along the
Irface Of the ground 1t cut a swath half
mile wide through Metz, Usage, and Blue
Mound townships, leveling houses, barns,
fences, and trees.
In Usage township, which is the only one
from which trustworthy news has been re-
carved the ruin is terrible Frame houses
were carried for hundreds Of yards through
the air and then hurled violently to the earth,
killing the inmates and scattering the ma
terial of which the house was composed in all
directions. Trees were dragged from the
earth and carried in several instances quar-
;er Of a mile.
Among the farm-houses crushed by the
cyclone was that Of John Miller, whose FAM
lily consisted of a wife and three children.
The house was shattered to fragments, and
Mr. Miller, his wife, and the two older chill
dren killed. The youngest, 2 years old, was
| found unhurt Friday morning in q pasture
| 2O0 yards from where the house stood.
| John Cullenbine and family Of four had
/ Just finished supper when the roof and a
new addition to the house were carried
away. One girl of 12 years, May Cullenbine,
who was in the az" part Of the building
| was killed.
Mrs E. Shrout and her daughter Mary,
| who lived short distance from Miller's,
were killed and their home wrecked.
The other deaths known up to this hour
are May Slower, aged 1s, and J. c. Hawkins,
farmer.